Using a combination of conventional and biotechnology approaches, DuPont is striving to create a wheat hybrid that could increase yields by up to 20%. Wheat plants are self-pollinating so the challenge is to create a wheat plant that pollinates from another plant to create a hybrid of the two. Hybrid wheat technology has been added to the first phase of a five step research and development pipeline at DuPont’s Pioneer seed unit. The first commercial hybrid wheat product should be available in approximately a decade.